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1. The Beautious Landscape of Sweet Parteen

   

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   On a Summer's evening the air was cheering,
   The lambs were bleating and the fields were green,
   Some bells were tolling, o'er the Shannon rolling,
   And I was strolling round Sweet Parteen!

   What a pleasing duty, without gratuity,
   If I were able to describe the scene,
   In the beauteous landscape that Sarsfield trod on,
   With his gallant army and their jackets green.

   I would praise the people upright and decent,
   And give a special praise to each bright Colleen;
   The bells were tolling, and the Shannon rolling,
   and the lambs were bleeding in the fields so green.

   I would praise the churches, hotels and school house,
   And the grand old spot by the Shannon streams;
   Where you dear relations for ever lie sleeping
   In the silent grave-yard of Sweet Parteen.

   I would praise the meadows well fledged with fodder,
   The spacious gardens well tilled and clean;
   The trade and labour, and every neighbor
   That brought such blessing in Sweet Parteen.

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Martin Kennedy

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Smith

   Address

   Violethill, Co. Clare